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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on December 13, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(2):256; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn376
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

RE: 'LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON RETINAL MICROVASCULAR CALIBER'

Ian C. Francis

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia

(e-mail: iancfrancis@gmail.com)

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As a clinical ophthalmologist, I was honored to be the corresponding author of the first publication to introduce into the literature in 2005 the clinical observation that smoking was positively associated with retinal venous dilation (1, 2). I believe it is instructive, as one reviews the origins of medical thinking, to know its genuine background.

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